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“I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue.”
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“The dark covers me and I cannot run now.”
Source : Song: Wake Up Alone, Album: Lioness: Hidden Treasures, 2011
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“Chris Brown is brilliant. That cat is crazy brilliant, and I wish him the best.”
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“If... [Alban] Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave for the asymmetrical partionings of the major/minor system, he departs just as radically from the twelve-tone tradition that is represented in the music of Schoenberg and Webern, for whom the twelve-tone series was always an integral structure that could be transposed only as a unit, and for whom twelve-tone music always implied a constant and equivalent circulation of the totality of pitch classes.”
Source : "The Listening Composer". Book by George Perle, p. 98, 1990.
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“Christianity is not a mere set of opinions to be embraced by understanding. It is the work of the heart as well as the head.”
Source : Henry Kirke White (1829). “The complete works of Henry Kirke White: with an account of his life”, p.413
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“I don’t want to kiss a stranger,†Cath would answer. “I’m not interested in lips out of context.”
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“If you could only see the vision I have. I wish I had your bodies to do this work. I would run from house to house telling everyone of the gospel, and after I lost strength to run I would begin to walk, and after I collapsed from walking, I would begin to crawl, and after my knees were so bloody that I could not use them I would use my arms to drag myself, and once my muscle in my body was gone I would begin to yell…oh, only if you could see the vision as I have.”
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“I'm not wild about hand-held shots.”
